Definizione monolingua

husband

husband (third-person singular simple present husbands, present participle husbanding, simple past and past participle husbanded)

1. (transitive) To manage or administer carefully and frugally; use to the best advantage; economise.
2. (transitive) To conserve.
   • 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

     ...I found pens, ink, and paper, and I husbanded them to the utmost; and I shall show that while my ink lasted, I kept things very exact, but after that was gone I could not, for I could not make any ink by any means that I could devise.

3. (transitive, obsolete) To till; cultivate; farm; nurture.
4. (transitive) To provide with a husband.
5. (transitive) To engage or act as a husband to; assume the care of or responsibility for; accept as ones own.

husband (plural husbands)

1. (obsolete) The master of a house; the head of a family; a householder.
2. (obsolete) A tiller of the ground; a husbandman.
3. (archaic) A prudent or frugal manager.
4. A man in a marriage or marital relationship, especially in relation to his spouse.
5. (UK) A manager of property; one who has the care of anothers belongings, owndom, or interests; a steward; an economist.
6. Large cushion with arms meant to support a person in the sitting position.

   While reading her book, Sally leaned back against her husband, wishing it were the human kind.

7. (UK dialectal) A polled tree; a pollard.

Definizione dizionario husband

	marito
	male partner in marriage
	Partner maschile in un matrimonio.
	The male partner in a marriage.

sposo

	dosare
	to conserve

	compagno
	Partner maschile in un matrimonio.
	The male partner in a marriage.

amministrare con parsimonia

coniuge

consorte

essere umano

maritu

omo

persona

uomo

vir

Altri significati:

Large cushion with arms meant to support a person in the sitting position.

master (of house, shop, etc.)

(transitive) To conserve

(transitive) to nurture, to farm.

A man in a marriage or marital relationship, especially in relation to his spouse.

(slang for) husband